In today’s episode of Healing From Within, your host, Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite Love welcomes Regina Cates, author of Lead With Your Heart (http://www.romancingyoursoul.com/)- a combination of wise advice, anecdotes and strategies for creating a life that is authentic, fulfilling and healing. As we know, many people are living in the physical experience disconnected from their heart essence and soul life and are more controlled by their ego. Regina and Sheryl have been privileged and honored to discover the heart, mind and body connection and to offer that to the public for it is only in this mindset and functioning that the stress and challenges we experience in our everyday lives can be transformed and exchanged for a more loving life style.
Regina will share her discovery that in our left-brain, which is the dominated world of logic and ego, it can be easy to get caught up in the rat race of success and forget the dreams and needs of our heart. It may not be enough to just follow your heart—you must lead with it. Today we will show you how to ask yourself hard questions, be responsible for your own actions, face your fears, develop compassion set boundaries and think differently.
Regina’s intense search for spiritual awakening and truth could have began when her dog developed heart disease due to poor dental care or when she lost her job, her home and was unemployed for two years and had to move back with her parents or when maybe when her back became unstable “…one sneeze and a lower disc herniation and then back surgery. Through it all, Regina’s inner voice told her to keep exercising, eat right and stretch. She was feeling sorry for herself and hoped for a miracle.”
Regina wrote, “It was then that I discovered who was actually responsible for creating the joyful and fulfilling life I wanted. Creating the life I wanted was completely an inside job. If I was my own worst enemy how could I be my own best friend. As I was the only one who could develop greater self-love self-acceptance peace and joy, I could no longer blame other people for my life. Seeing life through the eyes of an emotionally immature child allowed hurt to speak for me and to be driven by inappropriate impulses. I learned that heartache and disappointment happened when I practiced reactionary and self-justifying behavior and through self-assessment I realized that living insensitively is being out of control. Unfavorable action carries baggage in the form of damaging consequences. The returning result may not happen right away, yet the energy expended is guaranteed to be returned.”
Finally when sitting alone on her 43rd birthday, Cates hit emotional bottom with the realization that prior to that moment, she had been lost in the abyss of trying to live up to other people’s expectations and as a result she had given away one of her most important gifts the power of choice. Cates realized that while we cannot control other peoples or situations, she had a choice in how to respond to them. Cates shows us that if we choose to act from a place of love instead of a place of fear, we make our lives and the lives of those around us more joyful. That became the day a new birthday and life pattern began.
Sheryl says that while we may not always be able to do this in the beginning of becoming mindful of the triggers that press our buttons and cause us to feel anger, fear, pain, or sorrow, we will over time and with practice, begin to think of our actions, how they affect others and how to practice the law of attraction—giving and receiving good will and love and in the process conquering many of the hurts or imprints of past situations that affected us negatively or hurtfully.
Sheryl gives us an example. “When I was a kid I came home and told my mom that a kid was a flat-leaver…maybe that kid wanted me to do something I didn’t or couldn’t do and had run off leaving me in the dust.
